Strains involving the back of your thigh muscles, the hamstring muscles, are common in sports and certain daily activities that may cause a strong contraction or stretch to the muscles. A strain means a tear, which can be minor, or large to a complete ...

Hip arthroscopy is a rapidly growing surgical procedure, performed for patients with femoroacetabular (hip) impingement, and labral tears.The labrum is a stabilizing cartilage ring in the hip socket. Hip impingement is believed to predispose a person to ...

Now that Thanksgiving has come and gone, many of us jump right into preparations for the upcoming Holiday Season. This often entails shopping – these days done to a great extent over the computer or phone, and decorating our homes inside and out. As ...

With the Southern California winter approaching, we now hopefully will get some much needed rain. Unfortunately, it also means that rear-end car accidents become more frequent. In today’s newsletter, I will discuss some of the mechanisms and types ...

Now that the summer officially ends this Labor Day weekend, ending vacation time for many, and children returning to school, it is time to again get disciplined about exercising on a regular basis. As an article in the latest issue of Time Magazine ...

Welcome to the slightly changed format of my newsletter, officially the first issue from my new solo practice Mossberg Physical Therapy, which is now up and running. Hopefully this newsletter set-up will make it a little easier to maneuver between the ...

My early career mentor and friend Ola Grimsby for decades used the phrase “motion is life”, to articulate the ultimate goal of orthopedic manual physical therapy: to restore normal human movements. The vast majority of patients who come to ...

Tendinopathy (often referred to as tendinitis) is one of the most common disorders treated in physical therapy, and occurs almost universally in many sports. Today we know that the mechanism of injury is often a strain overload on the tendon, but there ...

Although orthopedic surgeons typically recommend low impact exercise after knee and hip replacement surgery, a trend exists to allow patients to return to more intense forms of exercise. Whereas the American Knee Society members in 1999 included 12 ...